🥕The Adventures of Herbert Gro-cart and Friends: Mobile Urban Agriculture in Vancouver" 🥕

Urban gardening dates back to ancient times.  Community gardens are increasingly celebrated as a means to improve food security in urban settings, and especially for those experiencing economic hardship.   However, many homeless persons are mobiles, and gardens are not.  Kate Elliott joins us on GDP to share a story about making the gardens themselves mobile.  The Gro-Carts of Vancouver are changing geographies of food security, homelessness, and indeed, happiness and community.  You won't want to miss this episode.

Kate Elliott is an educator, researcher, and writer, Kate is interested in the ways humans and non-humans weave the fabric of community. Trained as a lexicographer, she turned from stories of words to stories of people, working as a community health researcher before receiving her B.Ed. in Ottawa. After two decades teaching at high schools in Ontario and British Columbia, Kate entered a Master’s program in Urban Studies. Interested in re-imagining urban spaces, Kate’s research has looked at shared use of urban green space, the invisible labour of those who contribute to the health of urban environments, and the possibility of strengthening urban communities through opportunities for shared learning. Kate completed her masters in Summer 2019 and is now a PhD student in an Interdisciplinary Program at SFU. Sin Since 2015, she has been involved in Gro-Carts, an award-winning community project to engage people without access to land in mobile gardening. In 2017, she coordinated Simon Fraser University’s 7th Rethinking the Region conference, which brought together local and provincial stakeholders to discuss urban inequality. Her most recent engagement project, Hands on Vancouver, collects the stories of ordinary humans whose hands help shape the communities in which they live.

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